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Harmony Attaches And Opens Google Docs From Outlook
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows with Outlook: Sharing a Google Docs file for group collaboration can be a lot more useful than emailing individual copies to an entire team. Harmony makes opening, sharing and managing Google Docs from inside Outlook a natural fit. More »
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TypeWith.me Makes Text Collaboration Dead Simple
6:00AM Lisa Hoover | If you like Google Wave’s real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It’s a solid, simple, as-you-type document collaboration web app with no sign-up required. More »
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Initial And Photocopy Receipts Before They Fade
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | A good number of receipts are printed on thermal paper these days. Look at them after a few weeks in your wallet or other warm spots, and they’re unreadable. A Consumerist comment thread picks up a few ideas on keeping them useful. More »
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FillAnyPDF Lets You Electronically Fill In And Sign Any Form
9:00AM Lisa Hoover | Fax machines are going the way of the dodo, yet sometimes there’s no easy way to transfer forms back and forth, especially ones that need to be filled out and sent back. FillAnyPDF steps in to fill the gap. More »
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GDocs Edits And Syncs Google Docs On Android
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Android: Despite being otherwise entirely hooked into the Googleverse, your Android phone can’t edit Google Docs files on its own. The handy GDocs app steps in to download and edit (some) docs, upload files from your phone, and view PDFs. More »
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DocFetcher Searches Inside Your Document Files
1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Linux: It’s one thing to be able to quickly search through file names using a program like Everything, but it leaves you out in the cold when it comes to deep searching documents. DocFetcher can help by indexing document contents. More »
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Google Docs Now Lets You Export Everything At Once
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Google Docs already has an option to export every document you check off, but checking them all off is a time-wasting pain. Now it’s much more simple to grab everything, 2 GB at a time, in zipped-up files. More »
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Sumatra 1.0 Is A Blazing Fast Replacement For Adobe Reader
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we’ve all learned to replace. It’s only a 1.2MB download, so why not give it a try? More »
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CompareMyDocs Helps You Compare Document Revisions
8:30AM Whitson Gordon | Free web service CompareMyDocs is an easy-to-use tool that compares up to seven revisions of a Word document or rich text file to help you put together a final draft based on revisions you choose. More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »